Does anyone have one of these?

carchaeologist

Spotted this pic lately, and realised i havent seen one of these shape carinas for years, and there used to be loads of them around.Has anyone got one or know of one on the road?

manta mad

ahhh yes ,their scarce now .,

theirs one in daliy use in carlow town , well i see it now and again .:cool:


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new opel owners club ireland

carchaeologist

manta mad wrote: »

ahhh yes ,their scarce now .,

theirs one in daliy use in carlow town , well i see it now and again .:cool:[URL="http://"][/URL]

Try and cop a pic if you can?

Volvoboy

http://www.driver.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=35419&highlight=carina

:cool:

Silvera

I recall a farmer neighbour of ours buying a new (or nearly new?) one of those back in the early/mid 80's. It was a gold-coloured version and he looked after it very well....drove slowly in it and washed it every weekend.

IIRC...they had their rear lights organised/made in vertical strips?!
havent seen on in years ....or indeed the Carina model which replaced them...

i.e. this version ...

Blue850

an uncle of mine bought a brand new diesel identical one to the one in the photo, he had it for years.
When I was in school, a teacher had a coupe version like this

Gary ITR

This one was on show in Terenure last year. It's an earlier model

carchaeologist

Is the one above the one for sale in irish vintage this month?There used to be loads of that version around too,mainly in saloon form,and they are all gone too....

carchaeologist

This is the version i mean,just looked at silveras pic now!!

maidhc

A neighbour had an absolutely spotless one until 1996. It was crushed and a Micra was brought onto the roads instead :mad:

carchaeologist

maidhc wrote: »

A neighbour had an absolutely spotless one until 1996. It was crushed and a Micra was brought onto the roads instead :mad:

Hmm...another scrappage scheme victim im guessing..:mad::mad::mad:

bbam

Blue850 wrote: »

an uncle of mine bought a brand new diesel identical one to the one in the photo, he had it for years.
When I was in school, a teacher had a coupe version like this

Isn't that a Corolla Liftback, I drove a 1.8 years ago... the only exciting Toyota I ever drove

Blue850

Its similar to the Corolla but it was definitley a Carina, very rare as a coupe,
this is the Corolla Liftback

and Fastback

and a 81 Carina on Ebay.ie
Toyota Carina

Max_Damage

Don't mean to go off topic, but I couldn't help to notice the 'Axe Tax' sticker in the back window of that Carina! Now that brings back memories of times gone by!

alastair

Further off-topic. My favourite Corolla - the KE50 liftback - blatant copy of the Volvo 1800ES, but why not?

bbam

Blue850 wrote: »

Its similar to the Corolla but it was definitley a Carina, very rare as a coupe,

Indeed...

carchaeologist

I always thought these corollas looked great,also a car i havnt seen for years,maybe i should change the thread title to "where have all the toyotas gone":D

bbam

carchaeologist wrote: »

"where have all the toyotas gone":D

Nearly all turned back to dust from hence they came... like most "Datsuns"..

Once crashed an old 120Y... it made a kinda muffeled sound with a cloud of dust rather than a proper crunch

Blue850

I remember 9 of us being brought to national school in a saloon version of the above, no yummy mummy SUVs back then:D

carchaeologist

bbam wrote: »

Nearly all turned back to dust from hence they came... like most "Datsuns"..

Once crashed an old 120Y... it made a kinda muffeled sound with a cloud of dust rather than a proper crunch

Hehheh,thats mainly the humour i get when i talk to people about my own 100A:D Chocolate teapot,disprin car,etc,etc..

alastair

Blue850 wrote: »

I remember 9 of us being brought to national school in a saloon version of the above, no yummy mummy SUVs back then:D

feh.

I used to get a lift to primary school along with six other kids... in a Fiat 127.

Was grand aside from the odd time when a child would fall out the hatchback when the car pulled off or was stuggling up a particularly steep hill. No-one died however, and it was a different age.


70's people carrier

zilog_jones

I haven't seen a real Carina in a long time either - the Carina was a separate platform ("A" in the chassis code along with RWD Celicas) to the Corona ("T") up until 1984 (Coronas were *slightly* larger cars), and the Carina II and E's we got since '83 were just rebadged Coronas (Carinas had different body panels). Besides the odd AE86 or Supra there are very few RWD Toyotas left. Oh yeah, MR2s...

I used to see a white A40 Carina saloon (like the red estate Onkle posted) regularly enough in Kilkee though I haven't been there much the last couple of years. I found the dealer sticker on it with a two-digit phone number quite amusing

I don't think I've ever seen an A10/A30 (first generation) Carina - it's hard even finding pics of them online:


Judging by the rust on my grandad's '91 Corolla, I'm not really surprised that old Toyotas have become so rare...

Some interesting stuff I found when looking for pics:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stepho/carhist.htm
http://corism.221616.com/articles/0000044037/ (I can read the names if anyone's interested in what's what)

carchaeologist

Im surprised the salt air in kilkee didnt kill it!!:eek:

BeardyGit

My Dad had a metallic blue A40 for something close to 14 years. It was a 1978 model (or thereabouts) and had around about 300k up on the clock when he sold it. The filth who bought it used it on a post office ram raid a week or so later. Hot water for the old man as they'd given him duff names and a falsified credit union savings book to confirm the address he put on the logbook (those were the days, eh?). My Dad was gutted that they'd use his beloved Carina like that. He'd rather have let it wash away on the driveway than hear it had been mistreated.

Thanks for that Carchaeologist - Nice picture too, and some truly smashing memories of family holidays touring Ireland coming flooding back....From Mizen to Malin head and everywhere in between, cheese and sand picnics on the holey boot of the car on a windy Glenbeigh beach in Kerry, queuing up to see the Emperors Warriors in Kilmainham eating packets of Tayto on the back seat and trying not to get any crumbs on the wooly seat covers.... Sitting on my Da's knees and steering the car back through the estate on the way home from mass on Sunday.... A big part of my childhood was spent in that Toyota. Good man yourself.

carchaeologist

Gil_Dub wrote: »

Thanks for that Carchaeologist - Nice picture too, and some truly smashing memories of family holidays touring Ireland coming flooding back....

No problem, glad it jogged some memories for you,im sorry to hear of your dads car meeting such a bad end, that must have been a real kick in the teeth after all those years:mad:
Theres another thread i started on the all things retro forum,theres some more dads car stories on it,good reading if you are interested..
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055297698

carchaeologist

Gil_Dub wrote: »

Thanks for that Carchaeologist - Nice picture too, and some truly smashing memories of family holidays touring Ireland coming flooding back....From Mizen to Malin head and everywhere in between, cheese and sand picnics on the holey boot of the car on a windy Glenbeigh beach in Kerry, queuing up to see the Emperors Warriors in Kilmainham eating packets of Tayto on the back seat and trying not to get any crumbs on the wooly seat covers.... Sitting on my Da's knees and steering the car back through the estate on the way home from mass on Sunday.... A big part of my childhood was spent in that Toyota. Good man yourself.

Jeez,just read your edit on the last paragraph,that car had some history,what a pity it went the way it did:(:(

carchaeologist

This is the version before it,remember these!!Used to be loads about too.(Dutch reg again,strange)

walshe

have ya seen this for sale in cork http://cgi.ebay.ie/1981-Toyota-Carina-1-8GL-Rear-Wheel-Drive-AE86_W0QQitemZ280241209239QQihZ018QQcategoryZ122151QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Blue850

My mam had a beige 127, just like the one above, carried herself and 5 of us, I learnt to drive in it. There was a brown Carina like the red one above at the Mosney show , passed us on the N6 on the way home like we were standing still, it must have a twin cam in it, we shoved on the Kadett a bit(ahem) and it still disappeared off into the distance:D

BeardyGit

carchaeologist wrote: »

This is the version before it,remember these!!Used to be loads about too.(Dutch reg again,strange)

Ah, isn't this the A40? It's the one I was writing about anyway. Exactly like that in metallic blue.

MercMad

alastair wrote: »

Further off-topic. My favourite Corolla - the KE50 liftback - blatant copy of the Volvo 1800ES, but why not?


...."blatant copy" is stretching it a bit !! The Volvo had style !

That red "1600 DeLux" is identical to a green one that we used to practice on in Bolton street tech. It was badged Corona too !

alastair

MercMad wrote: »

...."blatant copy" is stretching it a bit !! The Volvo had style !

Still does! - I'm a proud owner of a 1800ES!

Toyota definitely copied the Volvo for this however - far too many styling cues for anything accidental. It's as much 'inspired' by the 1800ES as the new Volvo C30.

G Luxel

zilog_jones wrote: »

I don't think I've ever seen an A10/A30 (first generation) Carina - it's hard even finding pics of them online:


i know someone who has one of these models, it was registered in 1976 and is being restored. There were a few of these on the roads until the early 80s.
This model first appeared in 1970.

Silvera

I remember those Carinas! .... a local family where I lived in Wicklow had one in the mid-1980's for several years...a gold coloured one.

I also spotted a restored example at a car show in The Curragh several years ago...I'll post a pic someday soon. It was an original Irish reg car.


BTW, if anybody is looking for a classic Toyota theres a clean looking 1977 Corona 1.8 in the current Irish Vintage Scene mag ..asking €1500. (It's located in Donegal and theres no reg plate on the car so I presume it's a NI or UK import).

S.I.R

http://www.7tune.com/newtune/justin/carinagtr/carinagtr.jpg


how to tune up your carina back in the good ol' days

carchaeologist

Silvera wrote: »

BTW, if anybody is looking for a classic Toyota theres a clean looking 1977 Corona 1.8 in the current Irish Vintage Scene mag ..asking €1500. (It's located in Donegal and theres no reg plate on the car so I presume it's a NI or UK import).

Money seems ok,but its an auto,im guessing it was english alright.Was the corona ever sold here new, as far as i can remember i the mid to late 70s there was the...
Starlet KP60(from 78)I much prefered this version with the bug eye headlamps

CorollaKE30


Carina


Cressida(Who remembers them!)Another nicely styled large toyota.

Crown-one of the best looking big cars ever made in my opinion,
This version anyway,ignoring the crappy hubcaps!!

Max_Damage

There is still a load of Cressida's in the USA! I remember seeing one on nearly every street corner (ok, slight exaguration!) when I was over there about 4 years ago.

As for the Crown, I saw an '02 Jap import model of them today in Tallaght (or at least I think it was a Crown). The shape of them hasn't changed much in the past 30 or so years!

zilog_jones

Was it a Crown Comfort? They are a much older and more conservative design (same design since 1995, based on '88 Mark II), used mainly as taxis in Japan.

Max_Damage

zilog_jones wrote: »

Was it a Crown Comfort? They are a much older and more conservative design (same design since 1995, based on '88 Mark II), used mainly as taxis in Japan.

Probably was alright, it did look very similar to this, only in silver:



Wouldn't have though there would have been much of a market in this country for them, as taxi drivers here seem to flock to the JDM Toyota Camry.

carchaeologist

It looks a bit like an inflated early 90s nissan sunny!!Il stick with my 70s version!!:D

AsphaltRisin'

carchaeologist wrote: »

Spotted this pic lately, and realised i havent seen one of these shape carinas for years, and there used to be loads of them around.Has anyone got one or know of one on the road?

i think i know where there's one of those. although i cant remember the name of the place, if i can remember to, i'll try get a picture if i pass it again. it's in co limerick. parked beside a house, it may not actually be one of those but it lookd very like it.. i think

Cmar-Ireland

Onkle wrote: »

This one was on show in Terenure last year. It's an earlier model

Saw this for sale on one of the sites recently. Anyone know if it's still for sale?

carchaeologist

Cmar-Ireland wrote: »

Saw this for sale on one of the sites recently. Anyone know if it's still for sale?

Twas in the irish vintage recently anyway,the pic here is much better than the one in the mag though.Pity its an estate,saloons looked much better IMO!!:D

Cmar-Ireland

carchaeologist wrote: »

Twas in the irish vintage recently anyway,the pic here is much better than the one in the mag though.Pity its an estate,saloons looked much better IMO!!:D

Have to disagree with you there, I think the estate looks great . Wonder if it's still available

Gary ITR

carchaeologist wrote: »

the pic here is much better than the one in the mag though.

Can't expect everybody to have my photographic skills

carchaeologist

Cmar-Ireland wrote: »

Have to disagree with you there, I think the estate looks great . Wonder if it's still available

Check the next irish vintage,should be out in a few days.

gfwd

There was a saloon version of that Carina estate at the Mosney show. Looked great. My Dad had one in orange, 405 DZD. The last time I saw it it had been painted black.

carchaeologist

gfwd wrote: »

There was a saloon version of that Carina estate at the Mosney show. Looked great. My Dad had one in orange, 405 DZD. The last time I saw it it had been painted black.

Twas an april 78 car so,doesnt come up on cartell so its been off the road or worse for quite awhile:(

carchaeologist

Another shot of one on flikr....

Gary ITR

carchaeologist wrote: »

Another shot of one on flikr....

I remember seeing one exactly like this one being set on fire when I was a kid living in Clondalkin. In fact I saw many a nice car go up in flames. All of the old Mazda 323's and the DX Corollas were the thieves favourites where I lived in the early 90's.

carchaeologist

Onkle wrote: »

I remember seeing one exactly like this one being set on fire when I was a kid living in Clondalkin. In fact I saw many a nice car go up in flames. All of the old Mazda 323's and the DX Corollas were the thieves favourites where I lived in the early 90's.

Oh dear...:(And i thought clondalkin was a nice area!!